Inflated ball.



"N 830,581. I PATENI'ED SEPT. 11, 1906.

0. R. FLEISGHMAN. I'NPLATBD BALL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1905.

1 set forth and specifically claimed.

' To all whom it may concern:

CHARLES R. FLEISCHMAN, or cardiac, ILLINOIS.

INFLATED BALL.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

. I Application filed January 9,1905. Serial No. 240.356.

' Be it known that I, CHARLES'R. FLEIscn- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented; certain new and useful Im rovements in Inflated Balls, of which the ollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in inflated balls, such as are made of soft rubber or other flexible air-tight material, and which are intended to be used for playing games or for other purposes; and it consists in certain peculiarities ofthe construction, novel ar-.

rangement, and operation of the various parts thereof, as wil be hereinafter more fully The principal object of my invention is to afford means b which a cord may be conveniently attaclied to an inflated ball in such a manner that the air-chamber of said ball will remain air-tight, an improvement long desired b lawn-temiis players, who heretoing, simply because the inflated balls that the use are provided with no means for at- I tac 'ng a cordwithout the tion of attaching the, cord.

air-chamber sustaining a puncture.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the ball that the rubber or wall thereof will be prevented from tearing or yielding under the strain of a speed-ball carried to the end of the cord to which it may be attached.

A further object is to provide means for facilitating the attachment of the cord to the ball and in such a manner that the air-chamber thereof will not be pierced in the opera- In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings,

in which Figure 1 is-a view in elevation of an in-' flated ball embodying: my invention and showing a portion of a cord attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of the ball, showing the cord removed, but illustrating the openings therefor and also the retainingdisk used for engagement with the attached end of the cord and also for reinforcing the wall of the ball at and around the ointof its wall to whichthe cord is attache and Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of said retaining-disk.

' Likenumerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the different views of the drawings. f The reference-numeral 10 designates the ball, which may be made of any suitable size and material, but referably of rubber. At a suitable point a at disk or plate 11, having on its outer surface at its central ortion a tubulated part or loop 12, is embe ded in the wall 13, as is clearl shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. On eac 4 side of the tubulated portion or loop 12 the wall 13 is provided with an opening 14, which communicates with the open space or cavity of the tube or loop 12, so that the cord 15 maybe passed through said openings and loop or tubular employing the disk or'plate 11, having the tubular projection 12 on its outer surface, it is evident that said plate will contact with a considerable area of the wall of the ball and that when the cord 15 is attached thereto the strain'will be removed directly from the rub- I ber or wall and will be distributed around its point of connection and be sustained directly y the loop or tubular portion 12 of the disk.

It-is further apparent that by employing a disk having an outwardlyrojecting apertured extension, as shown, t e openings 14 in the wall of the ball for the rece tion of the cord may be pierced or formed t erein without danger of puncturing the air-chamber 16, which is-rendered absolutely air-tight by the use of the disk or plate 11 and the portion 13 of the w ll of the ball which lies on the inner surface 3i saidgdisk.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have shown a disk made of a single piece ofmaterial, preferabl metal, which consists of two partly circu ar portions 17 and 18, (the former being slightly in excess of a half-circle and the lat- 'ter abouta half-circle,) placed together so that their meeting edges or portions will A overlap each other and having integraltherewith at their middle ortions a tubulated partor loop 12, throu which the cord may ass. In-order to in beta where the openmgs- 14 should be formed in order to communicate with the cavity of the rojection or tubulated ortion of the disk, the outer surface of the ba lis rovided with dots at the proper points, which dots in the present instance ave been removed b the said openings. 7

Having thus fully escribed my invention,

1. The combination with an inflated ball having a pair-oi 0 'enings inits wall, of a disk secured to the wa l inwardly from the openings thereof and having an apertured proj ection on its outer surface, the aperture of said projection communicating with said openings, substantially as described.

2. The combination with an inflated ball having a' ortion of' its Wall reinforced, a disk embedded wall and rovided on its outer surface with a tubulate portion, substantially as described. .3. The-combination with an inflated ball -in said reinforced portion of the.

having a portion of its wall reinforced and rovided with a air of externally-open openings, of a metal '0 disk embedded in said reinforeed portion of the wall and provided on its outer surface with a tubulated part, the said openings ada ted to communicate with the cavit of sai tubulated part, substantially as escribed. I i

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this-specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES RLFLEISCIMAN. Witnesses:

O. H. Eron,

FRANK HOLMES. 

